From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 20:29:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A149A106566B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheus@eternamente.info) Received: from phoenix.eternamente.info (phoenix.eternamente.info [109.169.62.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B0F8FC16 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:29:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by phoenix.eternamente.info (Postfix, from userid 80) id 911101CC71; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:54 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 189.59.75.37 (proxying for 10.30.1.12) (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by 109.169.62.232 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:54 -0300 Message-ID: <81eca0ddc59eb29ed21bef18724e5b1c.squirrel@109.169.62.232> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:54 -0300 From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: 9.0 Install and serial terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:29:03 -0000 hail, I have some problems trying to install 9.0-BETA3 using a serial terminal. I edited to have it boot using serial console, that was fine, but I can't get it to create the slices the size I want. I say 1g to create a swap, and it puts there -56GB as size. Next I try to set 4GB to /var, using 4g or 4GB, and it sets 1.5GB. FreeBSD Installer ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────Partition Editor────────────────────┐ │ Create partitions for FreeBSD. No changes will be │ │ made until you select Finish. │ │┌────────────────────────────────────────────────^(-)┐│ ││ ada0s4 59 GB BSD ││ ││ ada0s4a 2.0 GB freebsd-ufs / ││ ││ ada0s4b -56 GB freebsd-swap none ││ ││ ada0s4d 1.5 GB freebsd-ufs /var ││ ││da0 3.8 GB GPT ││ ││ da0p1 64 kB freebsd-boot ││ ││ da0p2 535 MB freebsd-ufs ││ ││ ││ │└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ < Auto > │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Add a new partition to add to this, I couldn't find where to say that I'd like that or this partition to be formatted, and how to create labels to it. is this supposed to happen this way ? Am I doing something wrong ? thanks, matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style